Cheers Ronnie - you know how to cheer a girl eh? But "felt like she was all out of kilter" - might be even better and certainly more true just now. I can't even summon the energy to do the hoovering just now let alone look or feel like a builder! Xx
Well no I wrote them at about 10pm I think? Its now 4.04 am and the reason I'm awake is so I could pee and take painkillers and run Ibuleve gel into my back again. This time nothing to do with RA but because I fell down the stairs at 11.30pm and landed on our polished oak floor badly (is a good landing possible?!) and the pain was so awful that I screamed. Oh yes and I dropped Ruby and the remains of my herbal tea. The only reason I was carrying Ruby was to put her outside for a pee because she's very lazy when half asleep and then has accidents if not manually aced outside. I had taken my 4th antidepressant and that made me woozy too.
Husband is at work but youngest son was here and came rushing in answer to my "blood curdling yell". He helped me get up and then yell again. Realised I was in shock so sat me down (more ahhhhh) and got me a glass of water. We then managed to get me upstairs to bed and get paracetamol down me and rub Ibuleve onto the large affected area to the right side of my back just above bum up to where kidney is.
I can move but not without a lot of pain. The good bit is that its obscured all the other usual low level pain (RA I think) but the bad news is - and this is weird - its brought back the pins and needles in my hands and arms and the icy cold numbness in my calves with a vengeance - all of which had been fading right away except after exercise.
Now I'm no medic Loret but this feels significant? Compression of nerves now springs to mind - and if its the same then might it not have always been the cause of my PN I wonder?
As the saying goes bad things come in threes - lets hope because last weekend was an ambulance job! I'm meant to be helping and singing at the 25th anniversary of my choir tonight but now wondering if I will even make it. Also meant to be going on afterwards to a friend's 60th which I was looking forward to. Hope this bruise surfaces fast but couldn't find the arnica so I'm not that hopeful. Back to sleep I hope. Still in a lot of pain when I move at all but guess that's to be expected! What an idiot i am. Xxx
Mercy sakes alive, Tilda! That sounds like an awful fall.
Well, I'll tell you, I'm not a doctor either, but I have had alot of experience with back pain and nerve compression and ruptured discs and bulging discs and eroded vertebrae and spinal stenosis, so when you were first telling about all the pins and needles and tingling and feeling cold in legs, it rang bells and waved flags at me!
I know you said you had an MRI, but my Orthopaedic Surgeon said the fine nerve endings cannot be seen in a regular MRI, they need to use a contrast dye, or there is another procedure, where they inject dye directly into the spinal canal, then tilt the xray table and allow the dye to run up to the neck and then down to the sacrum. That is how they see exactly what nerves are being compressed.
Would not be surprising if they end up doing that since you have fallen.
See how it is today, especially standing and walking about the house, before you venture out and about.
I will be worried about you all day! Don't force yourself to do anything!
I am so sorry you are having one thing right after the other, but your back is too critical to ignore if it continues to hurt that much. Take care! L xx
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